#52 Unable to build winexe

[KV RAmana]

Hi,
'make basics bin/winexe' is failing with the following error

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Linking bin/asn1_compile
Compiling ASN1 file heimdal/lib/hdb/hdb.asn1
heimdal/../heimdal_build/asn1_compile_wrapper.sh: line 51: cd: heimdal/lib/hdb: No such file or directory
heimdal/../heimdal_build/asn1_compile_wrapper.sh:cannot cd into '.'
make: *** [heimdal/lib/hdb/hdb_asn1_asn1_files] Error 1

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Can you please help me in building the winexe?
Also where can I find the documentation on how winexe works (internals and authentication etc)?

Regards,
Venkat

[ahajda]

Hi, as you can see winexe suffers from permanent lack of time for maintenance.
Regarding your question, if you are still interested, please look at git version,
menu git/current and look for README, or just go to link below and read the page:
https://sourceforge.net/p/winexe/winexe-waf/ci/master/tree/

How it works? It uses samba libraries to communicate with windows services.
In short first it connects to windows admin$ share and copies there winexesvc.exe file, next it creates and starts winexesvc service via svcctl API. The service creates named pipe which winexe connect to and via this pipe it runs
windows programs and redirects its I/O.